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Liz aged 54
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Why was Ned confiscated, and not this elephant?
Does this elephant look any worse then Ned who was confiscated? Note her nail on her outside left foot? Look's like some tough issues there.
Extinct--Moa (Dinormis Maximus)
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
These birds are well known from bones and mummified remains of skin and feathers. Most likely strong runners, they seem to have preferred open scrublands and grasslands. Plants remain found with Moa skeletons show that these birds fed largely on seeds and grasses. Few complete Moa eggshells are known, but numerous shell fragments have been found. One egg, attributed to Dinornis, measured about 10 inches (25 centimeters) and would have held more than one gallon (4 liters).
Polynesians were the first people to settle in New Zealand. Shortly after their arrival in the 13th century, they began relentlessly hunting these birds, capturing them in pits and stealing eggs from their nests. Extinction of these remarkable birds apparently occurred within 160 years of the arrival of humans.
Elephantbird
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
You have to wonder if these extinct birds were alive today, if they would "attack" or would they just have "accidents", easily attributed to an exhibit design flaw? Or would it depend upon whether they were circus elephantbirds or zoo elephantbirds or sanctuary elephantbirds suffering from PTS cause by the circus?
Arab Courier Attacked by Lions is not politically correct
Text from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
This dramatic moment was captured by renowned Frech taxidermist and naturalist Jules Verreaux in 1867. Gold medal winner at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, "Arab Courier Attacked by Lions" was one of the best-known and most ambitious dioramas of its time. This piece was acquired and first exhibited in this country by the American Museum of Natural History in New York. It was also displayed at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876 and was widely acclaimed. The Carnegie purchased this exhibit in 1898 for a mere $50!
The scene is set in North Africa in the mid 1800s and depicts a subspecies of lion now extinct. Barbary lions , once widespread throughout northern Africa, were exterminated by expanding human civilization early in the twentieth century.
The restoration of this exhibit was made possible by a generous gift from Safari Club International / Pittsburgh Chapter.
"I don't think it is fair, that lions and other animals can "attack" but elephant's can't, unless they are in the circus. Apparently, from what we have been told, they can only have "accidents." It surely will give folk's the wrong impression of lions and other animals. I suggest in an effort at fairness and political correctness for all animal's, including lions that they not be made to have "attacks" any more, and instead be allowed to have "accidents" like elephants. A good place to start with that alibi is with this historic scene. From now on it will be known as "Arab Courier having an accident with lions, caused by a glass wall in the exhibit."
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